PODCAST · fiction

trapped in tar!

by trapped in tar!

base the podcast on the following story of Christine Johnson: Christine Johnson always believed she was meant to rule. At the ARC she had cultivated power through cunning and intimidation, manipulating her superiors, undermining her rivals, and seizing every opportunity to bend events to her will. Yet power was never enough. Power had to be absolute. That was why she had pursued the Artifact with a near-maniacal zeal. Tonight she stood in her private office—well past midnight—her manicured hands trembling as they stroked the leather cover of Helen Cutter’s diary. A smirk tugged at her lips. “Well, Helen…” she whispered aloud, her voice thick with self-satisfaction, “for all your vaunted cleverness, it was I who had the final word. You thought yourself untouchable, a goddess in your own right—but it only took a single well-timed strike. Oh, how you looked at me in that moment, so surprised, so powerless. Delicious.” Christine closed her eyes, savoring the memory. Helen had fought, oh y